or you can have a desktop like this...

3840x1024 :D (over 3 17" monitors)

I'm using a 36" LCD TV as a monitor and you almost get TOO much room.  It's the first time I've ever been able to have four views open at once and actually see most of my scene in each one.  :)

SnowS

Geez!  You guys must have whip lash from having to turn your head side to side to view your monitor.  LOL

ashley9803 - I too have an LG 20 inch widescreen monitor, works wonders with Poser & Vue!

How do you access things like the lights, dots, tools?  It would drive me mad to have to move things to be able to view others.

Acadia - I don't have to move anything, I access my lights, camera etc from the toolbar at the top.

I was just wondering, I'm using a wide 32 inch HDTV as my monitor.  what size do you have your windows set to?  are you connecting through svga or s-video (I found s-video to look horrible)  I'm not using the whole screen, when I try to set it to use the full screen, things are streached.

I'm using my laptop on the tv if that matters?

Mysticwinter, I'm using a DVI cable at 1920x1080 (it's a 1080 LCD). Your video card has to support 1920x1080 too, but I think most of them should now. Not sure if that helps much though, I had surprisingly little trouble getting mine set up (about the only thing I ever installed that wasn't a giant headache).  ;)

SnowS

Your widescreen monitors good......my empty wallet bad......sniff.

not sure what a DVI cable is.  My laptop has a vga plug and a s-video plug only.

the highest setting I can go to is 1600x1220  but even at 1280x800 I go off the screen.  I've tried to set on the tv hor. and vert. but it doesn't really make a difference for getting the screen all the way on the tv.

it is nice, just doesn't use the whole screen.

Thanks for your help

DVI provides a digital signal to your monitor. It is supposed to be better
but I can't see any difference.
Afrer pluging in the new monitor, you have to play around with various screen
resolutions to find one that suits you (and so things are not stretched).
I don't have a very high resolution as it's hard on my eyes looking at
tiny icons.
Am I missing out on something by having a lower resonution?

LCD monitors are set for an optimum resolution.  You can change it if you want but it will always look better and more crisp when it's set to the optimized value.

Also something I didn't know until I saw this in another thread a few days back is that if you right click your desk top, click properties, then appearance and then "Effects", and change the font to "clear type" that the fonts are much clearer.

So perhaps I'm just not going to use the whole screen..  that's cool.. it's still awesome!

Sorry I can't explain any more, that problem about going off the screen at 1280x800 seems odd to me. Acadia is right though, you definitely want to try to use the monitor's native resolution whenever possible. That was the main reason why I bought a 1080 TV, 720s are much more common and less expensive, but if you use them as PC monitors, you only get 720 vertical pixels, which is smaller than what you get with 1024x768. I had a 720 TV before this one and I returned it because it was really no better than my old monitor.

SnowS

I've been meaning to swap from my computer monitor to my widescreen television(32inch/1080i) for a while now.

I didn't think the resolution would be as crisp until I read this thread. Thanx.

Do I have to buy a new cable like a 360 needs? Is that a DVI?

Sanches.

Don't go out buying cables until you have a gander around the back of your TV (and of course your PC/laptop). There's no cover all solution unfortunately - Too many variables.

First things first, avoid S-Video like the plague. The digital video signal is converted to analogue...and badly. Not ideal for digital art.

Component is better. While it's still analogue, the quality is far better due in no small part to colour channels being split (Red Green Blue). You just don't see Component out on many video cards.

Ultimatley, as mentioned above, DVI is what you'll want for a sharp picture.

The TV is supposed to be able to do 1280 x 960, but I've never tried it.

I already have enough monitors hooked up to my computers...  ;-) 

hmmm  wonder what my hubby's big 62 inch tv would give me wicked laugh  he's in Iraq, maybe if I switch them now he'll never notice when he gets back.. hmmmm   LOL

contrarily, I'm of an age that I'm actually making my display larger to be able to read things...) Still at 1024x768

Enjoy the 'fine print' while you can..;)

My current monitor setup is a 22" LCD widescreen + an older 17" flatscreen CRT secondary monitor.  I am planning on replacing the CRT soon -- probably with a second widescreen.

There's no comparison between the new 22" LCD widescreen and all of my older monitors -- although the dual flatscreen 17" monitors which are attached to my other PC are nice monitors themselves.  They are "early" flatscreens -- ~3 years old now.  But still quite good.

The 22" LCD widescreen has spoiled my wife -- she's now unhappy when she has to go back into the office to face a single 17" CRT screen all day long.......she's bringing work home to do it after hours.

pakled
Your right.
I'm just trying out the resolution they suggest (1680x1050) and the screen text is tiny.
I can increase the font size in Firefox but it defaults back to small when I close.
Think I'll have to go back to 1024x768 like you.

Settled for 1280x720 resolution.
Big enough to read the text and nothing's stretched.

shrug - I'm still happy w/ my 25" monitor (set at 1600x1200), and a 15" LCD on the side (1280x1024). The big 'un runs the viewport, the little 'un runs the toolbars. /P

my eyes have been trashed by 20 years of looking at CRTs; from Mono, to CGA to EGA to VGA and on..;) Occupational hazard...;)

Quote - Just got a LG 20 inch widescreen monitor which cost less than my 17 inch did 3 years ago.
Opened Poser and felt like I'd moved from a bedsit to a mansion - so much elbow room.
No more overlapping menus competing for space.
Why didn't someone tell me about this before? Maybe I should have known the added horizontal space would make the Poser UI better, well it certainly did.
Widescreen - highly recommended.

I thought that when I got my 24" widescreen...then a couple of weeks after getting the 24" I sat infront of a 30" widescreen...needless to say, the 24" no longer felt quite soooo massive...lol!

One thing about using TV's...firstly they are more prone to ghosting (especially the plasma type)...one other thing, is the resolution is usually lower than it's monitor counterpart.
I'm surprised somebody here didn't notice the difference between VGA and DVI - did you check for colour banding etc before you compared the two?

Cheers

I'm off to connect to DVI and have another good look.
Haven't tried it on my new monitor, just my previous one.
Maybe my eyes are the problem.